Posts tagged with "Environment Canterbury"

Rain, wind and snow have conspired to delay a major realignment on SH73 between Canterbury and the West Coast. Hugh de Lacy gets his wet gear on.
CONTRACTOR AND CLIENT ALIKE knew that the 5.2 kilometre realignment on SH73 taking in the Mingha Bluff, a little to the east of Arthur’s Pass, was going to be weather-dependent, but they...

It’s barely a year since the merger of the old Contractors Federation with Roading New Zealand to form Civil Contractors NZ, and new president Brian Warren is on a mission to maximise the merger’s benefits. By Hugh de Lacy.
Brian Warren, who recently left Christchurch-based Isaac Construction after 11 years as its chief executive,...

Earthquake-battered Lyttelton Port, our third largest and the South Island’s biggest container terminal, is a step closer to major expansion after Environment Canterbury commissioners approved a draft recovery plan. Chris Webb looks at the work so far.
Lyttelton Port currently handles almost 400,000 20-foot container equivalents a...

Taylors Contracting was involved in the Tekapo Canal Remediation project. Repairing the canal, built in the early 1970s, was time critical. Every time the canal was dry the owner, hydro generator Genesis Energy, was losing big money. BY ALAN TITCHALL.
TIME WAS OF THE ESSENCE in this project as the canal shutdown windows were very...